Moving further into the beginning of the book. This time, "Mementos"
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Tabatha Yeatts has created a link to poems teachers and librarians can print for poetry month, titled "Poetry in The Halls". I'm grateful to be one of the poets!
Jama Rattigan has a post here with many poets' goals for April.
The Progressive Poem schedule can be found on the right!
The Years of Rocking
I’m touching the chair from 1901
when Great Grandpa’s hands
turned the wood and bent the strips
of my centenarian rocking chair.
I’m rocking the chair that
Great Grandpa’s hands
finished for daughter, Rosa, my grandma.
I’m dusting the chair that
Great Grandpa’s hands touched
those years ago, now rocked by
Grandma’s own children.
One was my dad –
little boy rocking.
I’m blessed with the chair that
Great Grandpa’s hands
created for years ahead,
rocking me,
then daughter and son,
my grandchildren, too.
Children smiled and hugged teddys
in their small rocking chair
made by Great Grandpa’s hands
with loving care.
Did he see them
from way up there?
Linda Baie ©